Well, the family started watching Babes on Broadway with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland this weekend, but the weather was so nice that we never got around to finishing it.
Jim went to see Shine a Light, the new Stones concert film by Scorsese on IMAX, but getting him to write on bookstep is like pulling teeth. He told me that the first 10 minutes are great, the first hour is really good, and then it just kinda runs long.
Seen any good movies lately?
One reader's thoughts as she steps from book to book.
Books I've Finished
- "A Christmas Memory"
- by Truman Capote 12/8/12
- "Child's Christmas in Wales"
- by Dylan Thomas 12/7/12
- "One Christmas"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- Inside Mrs. B's Classroom
- by Leslie Baldacci 11/28/12
- The Bee Eater
- by Richard Whitmire 11/15/12
- There Are No Shortcuts
- by Rafe Esquith 10/28/12
- I'd Like to Apologize to
- Every Teacher I Ever Had
- by Tony Danza 10/21/12
- Corked
- by Kathryn Borel 10/15/12
- Year of Learning Dangerously
- by Quinn Cummings 9/30/12
- A Hologram for the King
- by Dave Eggers 8/23/12
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- by Harper Lee 7/18/12
About Me
- Christine
- I often have a few books with bookmarks in them at once. I enjoy classics more than contemporary works of fiction, often read historical fiction, and love to get glimpses into other people's lives by reading memoirs and biographies.
4 comments:
Yesterday was Hitler's birthday, and so we watched some of the highlights from the new "Producers" movie - I love the old one, and enjoyed this one as well
Saw Jackie and Jet's "Forbidden Kingdom".
This movie is so like Star Wars Episodes 2-3 in which you are constantly asking yourself why Hayden Christensen is getting in the way of these people trying to make a good movie. Seriously, this movie needed to lose the whole Karate Kid vibe and just let JC and JL shine.
Unless you're a teen or have a serious Ralph Macchio jones, wait for the DVD so you can skip the terrible modern day scenes and just watch the China sequences. Even being a bit long in the tooth, when Jackie Chan and Jet Li cut loose, you better be watching.
Thanks for the review, Don!
I watched Love in the Time of Cholera, and, while I know it's terribly, terribly wrong of me to base a decision about a book on a movie, I am definately not running for the Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. Really, to make that a book worth reading, the producers of the movie would have had to write their own story and have just randomly given it Garcia-Marquez's title. It was appalling.
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